Around six months ago, I wrote a post about a weekend spent in England, including the feast that is my Dad’s Sunday Roast Lunch. Last weekend I was back in...
When we arrived at Everything on a Stick, we had a sneaking suspicion it used to be the ill-fated Minibar: a drinking venue whose concept involved serving yourself drinks out...
I’m not sure grapefruits are ever really in season in northern Europe, but according to Google they’re in season winter through June in the places they are grown (seemingly various...
It’s a bit unfortunate that the Dutch word for sausage is the same as the English superlative for bad. Especially when the sausage I’m going to tell you about was...
Those of you who are signed up to the Dining City/SeatMe mailing list will know that fish restaurant Stork currently has a promotion running (I believe until the end of...
Back in the 80s, people used the word ‘trendy’ to describe things that were fashionable. Clothes, food, venues. Trendy is now about the un-trendiest word you could apply to anything,...
Some days you eat dinner. And that’s just it: dinner. The food is good, the service genuine, the company entertaining. But there’s nothing more to say. No angle. No concept....
I’ve never really got why it’s called Good Friday – I mean, what’s good about being crucified? The only good part I could salvage from the whole sorry business was...
You know you’ll always be an Amsterdammer when you’re sitting on the train back from Schiphol and you start to see the familiar sights of the Westerpark, the Haarlemmerplein, the...
